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Re: A question of remembrance...
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Mon, 7 May 2001 16:41:12 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Brilliant Pebbles could have, again according to unverified and biased
> sources, stopped the Iraqi Scud attacks with 100% success. Something the
> Patriot system did not do. Those were non nuclear yet still were a big
> nuisance and stopping them early in boost phase would have been far
> preferable to when Patriots stopped them. So I don't see this need as a
> "created and ficticious" need.
But is the intent of the Umbrella to stop attacks by other nations against
other nations? That's how Dubya is trying to sell it, but it doesn't sound
like any other nation is buying the rhetoric.
> Ground based is doomed to be less effective than space based, no matter how
> you slice it. Further, the argument that because a suitcase nuke can defeat
> a shield, we shouldn't build one, seems not quite 100% correct to me.
That's true--my example wasn't especially precise. Naturally the Umbrella
isn't intended to stop ground-based attacks, but it's often marketed as the
Absolute Protector, and I was hoping to illustrate a chink in its armor.
I think we should work on a series of bombs jacketed with Cobalt-thorium G...
Dave!
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| (...) Right. Hence my question, is it our duty to be the world's policeman (in the area of incoming missiles) just because we CAN? I tend to say no. I say build the thing and then announce that there is a 1B USD charge per missile for stopping (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) See today's WSJ. All the pieces of Brilliant Pebbles have been tested and shown to work (although not as part of an integrated system). Most of them in Clementine, one of the most cost effective civilian space missions ever! According to the (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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